By PAUL HAVEN
Associated Press Writer
Updated Sep 9, 2010 07:49AM
HAVANA
Cuba's communist economic model has come in for criticism from an
unlikely source: Fidel Castro.
The revolutionary leader told a visiting American journalist and a
U.S.-Cuba policy expert that the island's state-dominated system is in
need of change, a rare comment on domestic affairs from a man who has
taken pains to steer clear of local issues since illness forced him to
step down as president four years ago.
The fact that things are not working efficiently on this cash-strapped
Caribbean island is hardly news. Fidel's brother Raul, the country's
president, has said the same thing repeatedly. But the blunt assessment
by the father of Cuba's 1959 revolution is sure to raise eyebrows.
Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The Atlantic magazine,
asked Castro if Cuba's economic system was still worth exporting to
other countries, and Castro replied: "The Cuban model doesn't even work
for us anymore," Goldberg wrote Wednesday in a post on his Atlantic blog.
The Cuban government had no immediate comment on Goldberg's account.
Julia Sweig, a Cuba expert at the Washington-based Council on Foreign
Relations who accompanied Goldberg on the trip, confirmed the Cuban
leader's comment, which he made at a private lunch last week."
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